Philadelphia’s 50 Most Beautiful Golf Courses

We did too! But rather than take an aerial picture of just one course, we set out to showcase aerial views of 50 of the area’s most beautiful golf clubs!

Narrowing down the list was no easy task since Philadelphia is fortunate to have so many top courses. We started with over 150, captured aerial pictures of our top 65, then finally whittled it down to our final 50. To determine our ranking, we considered course aesthetics, design, and prestige. The project took nearly two months to complete.

Enjoy the pictures below and let us know in the comments if there are any courses you think we missed!

Thanks for all the comments! For those who mentioned Commonwealth, it is unfortunately located next to the Horsham Air Guard Station, so we were unable to fly our drones there. It’s a beautiful course!

Philadelphia got an early start to golf in America. It is home to some of the best golf course designers in the world. As a teenager, George Thomas designed and built Whitemarsh on his family’s farm in the late 1890’s. William Flynn had a huge influence on many great Philadelphia courses including Merion.

Not sure what criteria was used to compose the list. St. Martin’s, Squires, Talamore, Philmont, Green Valley, Overbrook & Gulph Mills are all better groomed than some of the ones on your list.

Dan, It’s just amazing, you do a good thing and give it away and people find things to complain about. Many of these responses illustrate people’s preference to look at pictures but not read the narrative. (i.e. Pine Valley explanation). They’re also examples of the great Philadelphia parochialism, in this case as regards the haters favorite or local tracks. Thanks for your work. I look forward to flyovers of other courses.

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